95 Conservative MPs have urged David Cameron to introduce a national veto over EU laws. The demand comes as the UK’s attempts to reform rules on immigration inside the European Union have drawn fresh criticism from Brussels.

In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister and published by the
Telegraph, 95 Tory MPs have demanded an amendment to legislation
that would enable the British parliament to overturn whatever EU
laws that would be deemed as contradicting the “vital
national interests”.

“We would like you to consider adopting the ideas put forward
by the European Scrutiny Committee… which would re-establish a
national veto over current and future EU laws and enable
Parliament to disapply EU legislation, where it is in our vital
national interests to do so. This would transform the UK’s
negotiating position in the EU,” the letter reads.

The veto proposal is a fresh sign of a growing divide between
London and Brussels, which is only aggravated by the UK’s
aspirations to reform EU law, particularly in terms of
immigration. In his December article for the Financial Times,
David Cameron spoke of new arrangements that would “slow full
access to each others’ labor markets until we can be sure it will
not cause vast migrations.”

Proposals to curb immigration inside the EU have caused uproar
among the 27-member-states union.

The latest wave of criticism has been voiced by the president of
the European Parliament, Martin Schulz.

"The principle of free movement of people has been one of the
greatest successes the EU has; it is a fundamental principle and
it's not up for negotiation any more than renegotiating the
principle of the free movement of goods, services or
capital," Schultz said, as cited by The Guardian.

The head of the European Parliament made it clear he had nothing
against considering the UK’s reform proposals, even though they
come from a country pondering over its exit from the EU.

"I would rather see the UK making its case for reform from
within the EU, rather than with one hand on the escape
hatch,” the president said.

Earlier this week, another top European Union politician lashed
out at Britain over its stance on immigration. Viviane Reding,
vice president of the EU Commission, warned UK politicians
against spreading “myths” about
immigrants “stealing the jobs and stealing the social
security and the health money.”

"The fact and figures, and we all know this, show it is
simply not true and I do believe also that British industry has
made it very clear, putting the figures on the table and showing
that the GDP of Britain rose by 3-4 percent because of the input
of these working Europeans who come to Great Britain,"
Reding said, during her Friday webchat on European citizenship.

Britons meanwhile appear to be more supportive of the
government’s attempts to reduce immigration than of the EU’s
vision of migrant inflow being a favorable thing. 77 percent of
the UK population want to see the number of new arrivals to their
country downsized, according to a January
survey by the British Social Attitudes.

Another poll, conducted by the Observer and published in
December, revealed only a
fourth of British voters believed that the EU was a “good
thing”, while 42 percent appeared to have the opposite view.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron promised to renegotiate his
country’s terms of entry to the EU and then hold a referendum in
2017, offering the UK electorate the new arrangement or a chance
to leave the EU completely. However, to fulfill the promise his
party has to win a majority in the 2015 general election.